Improvement in rectifying  whisky



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3 HENRY rAKnjori B1100 To all whom it may concern:

Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New skilled in the art tomake and use the same.

v it is in a state of fermentation, a suitable quantity of ivory blackand charcoal, in

riod hereinafter stated.

is grtuurl and formed into mash .by the ordinary means, and is allowedto ferment, as is usual.

mash the following ingredients:

. fifty pounds of'pulverized charcoal, and the whole fermentation. (I'sayabout the above-named quan- KLYmAssIeNon To HIMSELF AND CHARLES A.TODD, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters-Patent No. "105,788, dated July 26, 1870 IMPROVEMENT m acorn-WmWHISKY, 8w.

- The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe same.

, Be it known thatjI, HESRY FAKE, of the city of York, have invented a.new and improved Process of Rectit'ying Whisky during, Distillation; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and

exact description thereof, which will enable others 'lhis im'entionrelates to'a new method of wi-thdrawing the fnsel-oils from theirintimate combination with whisky, while the same is in the process ofdistillation. y

The separate process of 'rectification is thereby avoided, and whiskywithout any traces of fusel-oil is produced.

' This invention consists in adding to the mash, while proportions andat a pe- To enable others skilled in this art to use my improvement, Iwill proceed to describe the same.

Gum, or other suitable grain, in; proper quantities,

At a period of about four hours less than the common durationoffermentation, I add to the beer or- For two lmndred bushels of grain inthe mash I use about twenty pounds of ivory black and about added to themashat theabove-stated period of its tities, as it is impossible to beexact, for the reason that scarcely any two distillers use precisely thesame process .in distilling; consequently the quantities of 'theingredients must be raried somewhat to produce the same result in everycase.) I

The beer ormash, with the ivory black and charcoal added, is allowed tostand and ferment about four hours,,and is then let down to thereceiving-cistern,

and the process of distillation proceeds in the-ordinary manner. v

By this process the ivory black, with the phosphate and carbonate oflime contained'therein, acts upon the fuscl-oil, separating it from thegrain during the\ tially as set forth.

, HENRY FAKE.

Witnesses:

P.. M. Panama, J r., W. ROWLAND.

